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Dodging Ranked Games.

I don't see why you have to get a leave and an ELO drop when you queue dodge. When you come into the game and all other 4 people scream: "solo mid ashe, kennen, teemo, malzahar," and the bans are master yi and swain because they "freaking hate swaina nd he is oppppp," you already know it's a loss. Then they start ragin about how he banned swain and not LeBlanc, and curses start flying and threats to afk and feed come out. It doesn't matter if you are the best player in the world, you can't win a game with 4 handicaps vs 5 decent players. There's no way out too. Dodge = loss. Play = loss.

Yes, I agree completely. edit: except the normal game to ranked game elo thing.

And if they don't get rid of that garbage, they can at least put a warning about the loss/leave incurred upon leaving, I got 4 leaves and 4 lost when I first started playing ranked, and I'll never get those back :'(.

Dodging puts stress on the system which causes server instability (limiting dodging has been one or riot's steps to creating server stability).

Aside from that, the draft mode takes easily 5 minutes itself. Just 2 dodges can have you waiting a good 17 minutes or more (5 for 3 drafts and wait time and load time), perhaps even 20, before you even manage to get into a game, and that's with only two dodges. Neither of which are yours so we aren't even counting the time that is added to that by your own dodging.

Perhaps matchmaking isn't perfect. I'm really not defending it, but dodging is not an acceptable solution to matchmaking's flaws due to the other problems that dodging bring with it.

Dodging puts stress on the system which causes server instability (limiting dodging has been one or riot's steps to creating server stability).

Aside from that, the draft mode takes easily 5 minutes itself. Just 2 dodges can have you waiting a good 17 minutes or more (5 for 3 drafts and wait time and load time), perhaps even 20, before you even manage to get into a game, and that's with only two dodges. Neither of which are yours so we aren't even counting the time that is added to that by your own dodging.

Perhaps matchmaking isn't perfect. I'm really not defending it, but dodging is not an acceptable solution to matchmaking's flaws due to the other problems that dodging bring with it.

That wasn't the point. It's when you join a queue and the moment champion selection starts, you know you're going to lose your hard earned ELO. It's extremely frustrating when you're under 1000 ELO because of leavers/ragers/afkers/feeders/noobs. You finally win a game and the next game, you just lost all of the ELO you gained. And the further down you get, the more this happens